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Starwood Hotel Comes To Nevis

Charlestown, Nevis
March 19th, 2007

The Starwood hotel brand “W”, comes to Nevis with experience and style that fits into the up-market destination which Nevis has been known for “, – says Premier of Nevis, the Hon. Joseph parry, as he stated in the house of assembly on Thursday, March 16, 2007.

The Starwood, the parent company of “W” will introduce its highly acclaimed, luxurious property, with a 150 ““ room hotel, under an agreement with the Nevis island administration.

When the doors open on January 1st 2010, the hotel will be located in the Pinney’s area, which is in close proximity to the city center of Charlestown.

March 20, 2007
By John Mehaffey
Basseterre, St Kitts,(Reuters)

St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas defended World Cup ticket prices and predicted a sell-out crowd for Saturday’s Group A fixture between champions Australia and South Africa at Warner Park.

Douglas said the minimum price for a ticket was $25 U.S. while the per capita income in the tiny Caribbean nation was $8,000.

Charlestown, Nevis (March 20, 2007)

Works are ongoing for the provision of a local craft display area in Charlestown. Minister of Agriculture the Hon. Robelto Hector made the disclosure on Friday March 16, 2007 at the Gingerland Primary School, at the end of Basketry and Pottery workshops for students hosted by the Cooperatives Division in Nevis.

“Shortly, with some help from the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society, and the Cooperatives Division, I am trying to get an area, some of you know it as the old Cemetery, where we can make space available for you [students] or persons in craft to display their crafts. So persons who are a part of that industry to be able to make a dollar as we say, when we have tourists visiting our shores,” he said.

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
March 20 (AP)

Garfield Sobers feels the notoriety he gained for hitting six sixes in an
over may have overshadowed his other achievements and hopes that does not
happen to Herschelle Gibbs.
At a ceremony on Monday to celebrate Gibbs becoming the first to achieve the
feat in an international match, Sobers jokingly suggested it was almost a
curse when he became the first to do it a 1968 first-class match.
“I hope that Herschelle doesn’t suffer the way that I have suffered over
the years, because where ever I have gone people have recognized me as the
man that hit six sixes,” the West Indies great allrounder said. “I have
always wondered if that was the only thing I had done in cricket. I thought
I had done a little bit more than just hit six sixes.

March 20, 2007
By Lloyd Noel

Now that the ICC CWC2007 has in fact been opened and is ongoing as planned; and the Opening Ceremony on Sunday 11th March in Jamaica, could really be classified as the best ever, from the point of view of show-casing the history and culture of the Caribbean as a whole; and at the same time bringing together parts of the history and traditions of the other competing countries from around the world, it is, perhaps, the appropriate time to pose the above question.

And I say so, because with five weeks still to go before the final in Barbados on April 28, there is still ample time for the Local Organising Committees (LOCs), to more forcefully put forward another case to the ICC and WICB, to make some amends to the entry fees and prices of food and drinks at matches.

And just as significantly is the fact that it is not simply wild speculation on anyone’s part to say that the estimates and calculations about the World Cup bonanza were hopelessly over-exaggerated.

To begin with, it is already very clear that the estimated one hundred thousand visitors, expected in the region for the World Cup will not be realised.

And that realisation comes from the facts that, for the first round matches in which all sixteen teams are participating, the turn outs of the crowds at St Kitts – Nevis and St Lucia especially, have been very disappointing.

Starwood Hotel Comes To Nevis

St Kitts – Nevis PM Defends Ticket Prices

Local Nevis Craft Display Coming To Charlestown

Sobers Congratulates Gibbs On His Six Sixes

Is The Cricket World Cup Bonanza A Reality?